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It is important, and sometimes difficult, to remember that Leonard Nimoy, who died Friday at the age of 83, was an actor, not an alien. As Mr. Spock, the elf-eared, half-Vulcan science officer and first mate of the Starship Enterprise, he created a role that turned him from a journeyman into a star. The role made a footnote of everything he'd done before and colored everything that came after. The titles of Nimoy's two memoirs — "I Am Not Spock" (1975) and "I Am Spock" (1995) — indicate a process of rejection and acceptance the part played in his life. And each is true: He was all the while his own person — it's interesting, even a...

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It is important, and sometimes difficult, to remember that Leonard Nimoy, who died Friday at the age of 83, was an actor, not an alien.
As Mr. Spock, the elf-eared, half-Vulcan science officer and first mate of the Starship Enterprise, he created a...

In 1975, Leonard Nimoy published an autobiography with the defiant title, "I Am Not Spock" — an attempt to show the world he had many more facets than the pointy-eared character that had come to define him. Yet two decades later, after proving...

PASADENA, Calif. Viewers have seen Zachary Quinto play the Big Bad before as Sylar on "Heroes," as a serial killer on "American Horror Story: Asylum" and in NBC's "The Slap" (8 p.m. Eastern, Thursdays) he plays the...

Uma Thurman's appearance at Monday's premiere of her NBC mini-series "The Slap" garnered some speculative attention and the actress addressed the brouhaha during an appearance on "Today" on Thursday.
"I know I looked weird!"...

Adapted by playwright Jon Robin Baitz from a 2011 Australian miniseries, NBC's "The Slap," which premieres Thursday, purports to address the complexities of parenting, the dangers of self-righteousness and the conflict between thought and deed....

Three years ago, the Australian miniseries "The Slap" about the ripples of repercussion following a man's slap of an acquaintance's misbehaving child aired on DirecTV, and it was a compelling look at contemporary families under pressure....

Hauling off and hitting someone else's kid is unacceptable. Barbaric. Ill-advised. But a TV show about it? Really quite enjoyable. NBC's "The Slap," starting its eight-week run on Thursday, knows exactly what it's doing, with every political...

DON'T MISS: The 57th Annual Grammy Awards They don't call it "music's biggest night" for nothing. Once again, the Grammy stage will be graced by an eclectic lineup of bright stars, including Kanye West, who is set to deliver a solo performance...

"Star Trek 3" didn't have to voyage to strange new worlds to find its writers. Simon Pegg, the English actor who plays Scotty in the rebooted sci-fi franchise, has been enlisted to co-write the script for the third installment with Doug Jung,...

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Leonard Nimoy, best known as Mr. Spock of "Star Trek," has been diagnosed with a lung disease and is lobbying fans to quit smoking in order to prevent a similar fate of living less and not prospering.
The 82-year-old actor announced the news on...

HBO’s political satire “Veep” took home a good portion of the cake in the comedy genre with Julia Louis-Dreyfus winning the Emmy for lead actress in a comedy and Tony Hale going home with supporting actor in a comedy. Ultimately, though, “Modern Family”...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Kinky Boots" won six Tony awards on Sunday including the top award of best musical and a prize for its composer, pop queen Cyndi Lauper, as Broadway presented its top honors. Lauper won best score for her first Broadway...

If you get to them early enough on announcement day, you can get newly minted Emmy nominees to talk about pretty much anything. Can you blame them? They're excited at the news, they're happy for their colleagues — they're punch-drunk from getting up at...

Star Trek Into Darkness
Paramount, $29.99; Blu-ray, $39.99/$54.99
Available on VOD beginning Sept. 10
Although it's not as much fun as the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot, J.J. Abrams' sequel has the same major asset as its predecessor: a winning...

Once a month, at Third Coast Comics in the Edgewater neighborhood, the store closes for the evening and the knitting comes out. Followed by the drinks. Drink & Draw & Knitting Night is the second Thursday of each month, as it has been since...

While the USS Enterprise has yet to conquer foreign galaxies, it is starting to pick up speed overseas.
Playing in seven foreign markets this weekend, J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek Into Darkness" collected $31.7 million, according to an...

Trekkies, you may want to sit down before reading this.
In an appearance Monday on “The Daily Show,” J.J. Abrams revealed to Jon Stewart that he was never much of a “Star Trek” fan -- at least not until recently.
The director’s latest film...

"Star Trek Into Darkness," bursting at the seams with enemies, wears its politics, its mettle, its moxie and its heart on its ginormous 3-D sleeve. Director J.J. Abrams and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise try to build a better sequel with...